The Wire Devils

Author : Frank L. Packard
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 195 pages
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Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547396420

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Harry Maul, also known as The Hawk, is a safe-breaker, forger, jewel thief, and one of the cleverest 'gentleman' crooks, wanted by the police and also by criminal gangs. He follows another band of criminals, cracks their communication code, keeps outsmarting them and getting to their target before they do. Frank Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist best known for his Jimmie Dale mystery series. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of railroad stories and novels. Packard also wrote number of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day and a fearless crime fighter by night. Jimmie Dale novels brought the idea of a costume and mask for hero's secret identity, and also established the concept of a hero's secret hideout or lair.

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Railroad stories
ISBN : 0816685118

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"The Wire Devils" follows a criminal gang of the same name who hijack a railroadOCOs telegraph lines to glean information about profitable shipments. Combining elements from dime-store novels and Frank L. PackardOCOs own experience on the rails, this is at once a hybrid western and a thriller still worth reading nearly a century after it was written. "

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 0665754116

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Author : Frank L. Packard
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041818174

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" Two switch lights twinkled; one at the east, and one at the west end of the siding. For the rest all was blackness. Half way between the switch lights, snuggled close against the single-tracked main line, the station, little more than a shanty and too insignificant to boast a night operator, loomed up shadowy and indistinct. Away to the westward, like jagged points sticking up into the night and standing out in relief against the skyline, the Rockies reared their peaks. And the spell of the brooding mountains seemed to lie over all the desolate, butte-broken surrounding country—for all was utter silence. And then there came a sound, low at first, like a strange muttering from somewhere to the westward. It died away, grew louder, was hushed again—and broke into a sustained roar. Came then the quick, short gasps of the exhaust—it was a freight, and a heavy one. And suddenly, from up the track, circling an intervening butte, an electric headlight cut streaming through the black. It touched the little station in a queerly inquisitive way in the sweep of its arc, lingered an instant over the platform, then swung to the right of way, and held there, the metals glistening like polished silver ribbons under the flood of light..."

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 123040256X

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... --Ill-- THE PAYMASTER'S SAFE FROM the roundhouse it was only a few yards to the rear of the long, low-lying freight sheds and, unobserved, the Hawk gained this new shelter. He stole quickly along to the further end of the sheds; and there, crouched down again in the shadows, halted to make a critical survey of his surroundings. Just in front of him, divided only by a sort of driveway for the convenience of the teamsters, was the end wall of the station, and, in the end wall-- the window of the divisional paymaster's office. The Hawk glanced to his left. The street upon which the station fronted, an ill-savoured section of the city, was dark, dimly lighted, and deserted; the only sign of life being the lighted windows of a saloon Ok Jie corner of a narrow lane that bisected the block of somewhat disreputable, tumble-down wooden structures that faced the station. To his right, on the other side of the freight shed, the railroad yard had narrowed down to the station tracks and a single spur alongside the shed. There was no one in sight in either direction. The Hawk's eyes strayed back to the paymaster's 2ft window. The station, like its surrounding neighbours, was an old wooden building; and, being low and only two-storied, the second-story window offered inviting possibilities. From the sill of the lower window, a man who was at all agile had the upper window at his mercy. Against this mode of attack, however, was the risk of being seen by any one who might pass along the street, or by any one who might chance upon the end of the station platform. "What's the use!" decided the Hawk, with an abrupt shrug of his shoulders. "Play safe. There's a better way." The Hawk crept across the driveway, reached the street side of the station, peered...

Author : Frank L Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798577047320

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Featuring the anti-hero "the Hawk," a gentleman jewel thief who outsmarts both the railway police and a nation-spanning conglomerate...

Author : Frank L. Packard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534913645

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Author : Frank L Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798637735723

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TWO switch lights twinkled; one at the east, and one at the west end of the siding. For the rest all was blackness. Half way between the switch lights, snuggled close against the single-tracked main line, the station, little more than a shanty and too insignificant to boast a night operator, loomed up shadowy and indistinct. Away to the westward, like jagged points sticking up into the night and standing out in relief against the skyline, the Rockies reared their peaks. And the spell of the brooding mountains seemed to lie over all the desolate, butte-broken surrounding country-for all was utter silence. And then there came a sound, low at first, like a strange muttering from somewhere to the westward.

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1086655233

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Author : Frank L. 1877-1942 Packard
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340199270

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Author : Frank L (Frank Lucius) 187 Packard
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013730054

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Author : Frank L. Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974245233

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Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liege. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale.Several of his novels were made into films.Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday ; Doran, [c1918] 1931 [printing]
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : OSU:32435004381950

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Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798580100692

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TWO switch lights twinkled; one at the east, and one at the west end of the siding. For therest all was blackness. Half way between the switch lights, snuggled close against thesingle-tracked main line, the station, little more than a shanty and too insignificant to boasta night operator, loomed up shadowy and indistinct. Away to the westward, like jaggedpoints sticking up into the night and standing out in relief against the skyline, the Rockiesreared their peaks. And the spell of the brooding mountains seemed to lie over all thedesolate, butte-broken surrounding country-for all was utter silence.And then there came a sound, low at first, like a strange muttering from somewhere tothe westward.It died away, grew louder, was hushed again-and broke into a sustained roar. Camethen the quick, short gasps of the exhaust-it was a freight, and a heavy one. And suddenly, from up the track, circling an intervening butte, an electric headlight cut streaming throughthe black. It touched the little station in a queerly inquisitive way in the sweep of its arc, lingered an instant over the platform, then swung to the right of way, and held there, themetals glistening like polished silver ribbons under the flood of ligh

Author : Brian Hochman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674249288

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TheyÕve been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals howÑand why. Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth centuryÑand they have spied on their own customers too. Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring. How did we get from there to here? In The Listeners, Brian Hochman shows how the wiretap evolved from a specialized intelligence-gathering tool to a mundane fact of life. He explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games and tracks the use of telephone taps in the US governmentÕs wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime. While high-profile eavesdropping scandals fueled public debates about national security, crime control, and the rights and liberties of individuals, wiretapping became a routine surveillance tactic for private businesses and police agencies alike. From wayward lovers to foreign spies, from private detectives to public officials, and from the silver screen to the Supreme Court, The Listeners traces the long and surprising history of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping in the United States. Along the way, Brian Hochman considers how earlier generations of Americans confronted threats to privacy that now seem more urgent than ever.